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Obama’s Edict Opens Bathrooms

Last week was crazy! The momentum of the sexual revolution is astounding, and the conflicts surrounding it are popping up all over the nation. There is hope, but first let’s review the week.

On Monday the governor of North Carolina was supposed to respond to the president’s threat to eliminate our new privacy law (HB2) – so we responded with a lawsuit against the feds. Nice! But the administration swung back with a lawsuit of its own, threatening to withhold our own tax dollars.

On Tuesday the superintendent of the Fort Worth Independent School District signed new guidelines for boys to use girls’ bathrooms and play in girls’ sports throughout the entire district. But he didn’t stop there. He expanded the guidelines to say, “Prior to notifying any parent … regarding the student’s gender identity or any potential transition process, school personnel must work closely with the student to assess the degree to which, if any, the parent … has been or will be involved in the process.”

Wait! Hold up a second. Ifthe parent should be involved, or will the parent be involved?! To eliminate the parent in a sex-change transition process is absolutely absurd. And all of this was done without the school board’s approval! These guidelines were not debated, discussed or disclosed to anyone. He just put them in place.

Then, it’s hard to believe the week could get even worse, but the president issued a “royal edict” demanding every public school in the nation open bathrooms, locker rooms and showers to boys identifying as girls.

That was just one week in the U.S.

What we’re witnessing is total lawlessness and a meltdown of civil society. The safety and protection provided by our laws are unraveling right before our eyes. So it’s important to know why, and it’s vital we see hope in the midst of it all.

First, we have to realize the issue has nothing to do with transgender people. These are folks for whom Christ died and loves dearly. They are humans, precious in God’s site and created for His purposes. They need the truth spoken in love so they can find hope and healing in the arms of Jesus.

Rather, this has everything to do with the revolution – the radical sexual revolution bent on removing God’s moral boundaries, redefining God’s moral values and reshaping a new godless America. The transgender community just happens to be the easiest group to exploit for the political ground needed to make the revolution happen.

Keep in mind that in 1987, Guide Magazine featured an article titled, “The Overhauling of Straight America,” where it listed action points for the sexual revolution. Here are two we’re watching today, written nearly 30 years ago:

Our campaign must not demand direct support for our actions, but instead should take anti-discrimination as its theme.

At a later stage in our campaign for rights, it will be time to get tough with the remaining opponents. To be blunt, they must be vilified. We intend to make those opposed to us look so nasty that average Americans will want to disassociate themselves from such types.

The revolution is here, among us. It’s eroding civil society and creating more and more confusion and conflict, which is exactly what it has intended to do. Last year, the conflict was gay marriage. This year, it’s transgender bathrooms. Next year, it will be something different.

The issue isn’t the issue – the revolution is.

But there’s hope! Although history is simply repeating itself – as it always does when God is removed from a nation – the Bible shines light in the midst of darkness.

During King Asa’s reign, there was civil unrest, and the peace they had once enjoyed was gone. “In those times there was no peace for those who went about their daily activities because the residents of the lands had many conflicts” (2 Chronicles 15:5).

The reason why was because, “For many days Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law” (2 Chronicles 15:3).

Empty religion

Passive preachers

Lawless leaders

These three things together are the ingredients necessary to bake into a nation decadence, decay and destruction – in that order. And it’s because of these things we’re in the situation today.

America has forsaken the true God, the only God that brings blessing and protection (the church is directly responsible, but that’s another article altogether). Our pulpits are filled with passive preachers who relegate the truth – if they speak it at all – down to a common denominator so as to not offend. And our leaders adamantly reject the vital laws necessary to maintain a civil society (as our president showed us last week).

But – and that’s a big but – God always gives us a way out of the madness. The story of King Asa didn’t end in despair, as God said, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him He will forsake you. … But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is a reward for your work” (2 Chronicles 15:2,7).

It’s time we seek God with all our hearts once again all across this nation, beginning in our own lives, homes and communities. He is our only hope, for all of us, including the transgender community and anyone raging against His moral boundaries.

“Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).

Author

Twin brothers, David and Jason Benham, are former professional baseball players, best selling authors, speakers, and nationally acclaimed entrepreneurs whose business success earned them a reality show with HGTV. When their show was abruptly cancelled because of their commitment to traditional/biblical values, the brothers chose not to back down and encouraged others to do the same! They are married to Lori and Tori and have a combined 9 children and live in Charlotte, NC.

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